I wonder how many of these problems are kids whining for attention the way they might whine for ice cream, and how many of these issues are genuine problems. In many cases, if there is a genuine problem, I suspect it'd manifest in other ways if the Internet didn't exist. For those seeking escapism, it might be that the parent goes to the dog track or casino instead of the endless web surfing.
As for kids coming across daddy's little porn stash, I worry for the parents more than the children. If the parent isn't being inappropriate with the child (Yes showing them porn isn't appropriate but I'm talking about interfeering with them) it's the parent that could end up in jail in our paranoid society. The truth is that if kids are to be equipped to deal with the modern world, they should learn about sex early so that they can avoid predators and dangerous misinformation. They just should not engage in sexual activity early. People have become so scared that their children might engage in sex early that they're willing to go to extreme measures and label ordinary parents as sexual predators. Honestly how many slashdotters would have had fathers who had a stash of playboy magazines and who'd secretly sneaked a peak at them when they were young. This is the internet equivalent.
Speaking as someone who works on ancient Greek literature for a living
My hat's off to anyone who can get through Iliad and Odyssey let alone make a living at it. I'm no idiot. English was my easiest subject in school. Shakespeare didn't phase me (though I had a love/hate relationship with some of the drivel he wrote). However when I tried to read the Iliad and Odyssey I just couldn't handle the repetition. It bored me to tears.
Skepticism is not about replacing one form of blind faith with another. Anyone who claims to be a skeptic but takes Wikipedia at face value is not a skeptic. Idiot perhaps.
I'd rather rely on the best evidence collected, with plenty of references and independent sources to back it up, than on blind faith in anything or anyone.
That's not to knock Wikipedia as an excellent starting point, but I've seen plenty of bias in the articles and if it's important to know the truth I'd always go looking at the cited references AND finding more independantly of Wikipedia.
MS Project paves the way to waterfall projects, mainly because most managers don't understand iterative development. I'd say the problem is more general: most business people don't understand iterative development. They want hard deadlines and schedules and guarantees, even though software development doesn't really work that way.
Two ways to overcome that. 1) Put each iterative process in as a task on the project plan and make sure you allow for iterations. 2) Put each iteration into the project plan up front.
Use 1 when you want to present the task to those who don't understand iteration. The task becomes a black box. It's harder to track progress on the task, but it allows you to present your plan hopefully without having it shot down. Use 2 when you're target audience understands the iterative process. Great for tracking.
Project plans are always a work of fiction. However, like a good murder mystery, if you can throw a lot of truth in, they read more plausibly because they're closer to the truth. Also like a good murder mystery, you want to keep the plan interesting and relevant but only include as much detail as you think your audience can digest.
I find the hardest thing is being given the task of preparing the project plan then not being given the authority to have things done in the way you had planned.
This really drives one to another issue. The longevity of the fingerprints will remove their value. All a finger print proves is proximity. As long as a finger print is there, it proves nothing but attendance.
Fingerprints are just a tool.
Traditional fingerprints can be used where time you are trying to determine if someone was there recently. This new technology may be useful in a case where the suspect claims to have no connection with a place or object. They'd need to be used more carefully and their use is limited, but this doesn't take anything away from traditional fingerprinting techniques.
The 70s photo is of of a bright eyed bushy tailed group ready to take on the world.
Are you looking at a different picture? I see a bunch of drug taking, 70s fashion victims that've been up all night coding and plotting to take over the world from their parent's basements.
Third, and most importantly, PEOPLE ARE FREE TO STRUCTURE THEIR EMPLOYMENT AS THEY WISH. Whether a person has the clout to get different terms is a factor of their value. The company doesn't have to hire someone and someone certainly doesn't have to work for a company.
No they're not. People and companies are bound by the law, which still applies. Putting it in caps doesn't make it so. People modding you up for such a stupid statement doesn't make it so. All it takes is proof by counter example and you've got egg on your face. So...
For example, everywhere as far as I know, a company can't offer you a contract that requires you to give them any children you conceive while working for them. Likewise I can't imagine a condition of employment being that you go out and murder your neighbours being legally binding (with perhaps the exception of an extremist military regime that also holds power).
So no, people are not free to act as they wish. That isn't the definition of freedom. Freedom does not mean you're allowed to do whatever you want no matter how it impacts others. You still have to be at least benign to the society in which you live, based on the laws that society has passed. At least that's the theory. I'm guessing you're American? When America's founding fathers fought for freedom they did not fight for lawlessness and hedonistic disregard for their fellow man.
- Internal 802.11g ($30, goes in mini-PCI slot instead of useless WinModem) - 160 Gb Drive - Better than new battery
counts as 'better than new'
I'd say a machine with a few new components, but old video, CPU and motherboard which have been well used and sren't in new condition is not "better than new".
You're telling us that you were the smartest kid in school, but that you weren't smart enough to stop the dumbest kid from kicking your ass on a daily basis.
There are different types of intelligence. Social intelligence is a completely different skill to academic intelligence. In other words being able to stop the dumbest kid in the school from kicking your ass is a different skill to trying to solve a quadratic equation.
Now when v2.0 finishes something early (which she often does), her teacher finds a few pages worth of stuff to do that is similar to what the class is working on in the book and has her do it.
How about finding something completely different for her to learn? Something she wouldn't normally have picked up. Presumably if she's finished that work early and correctly she learns very little doing more of the same. Picking up something completely new on the other hand, and learning to do this on her own without instruction, will be much better for her. She doesn't always have to jump ahead either (although she can if you determine that's good for her). There's plenty that's no longer taught due to the slowed pace that she could be picking up.
This is common, but from a kid's perspective, most would rather be sitting quietly or reading a book than doing more *work* than everyone else has to do.
That's because in a world where you have great scientific theory, music art that would take many lifetimes to study, complex political and geographic systems, a history so rich no one could cover it all, and knowledge in many practical skills, the current education systems world wide have made learning about these things and aquiring skills boring and dull.
What you need to do with this sort of child is get them fired up and passionate about learning something. Then instead of reading a storybook for 20 minutes or "sitting quietly" (ie being parked out of the teacher's way) they could be absorbing more knowledge and perhaps picking up a new skill. The extra work allocated should not be formally assessed and there should be no penalty for not completing it. It should be targetted to the student (and in fact they should have selected it - one of their first tasks should be to find something they wish to learn when they finish tasks early). It should be FUN. Yeah strange concept. Instead of boring a child to tears and dosing the ones that respond badly with Ritalin we should try to make learning a pleasure so they don't stop as soon as they leave school.
Luck? No, when you take a knife out and stick it into someone's back, the only piece of luck involved is the luck that they don't notice and turn around while you're doing it. Then again a good sense of timing and a total lack of moral fibre goes a long way to picking your moment and eliminating the element of luck all together.
If Microsoft was about trying to understand "understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experience and put them together" they'd have tried to bring Gary Kildall on board instead of screwing him out of his OS for minimum price.
Clearly what he just demonstrated is that by business experience he means the ability to lie to your customer and twist the truth to suit your business goals.
No problems with BIOS limitations if you put the/boot partition on the beginning of the big fat drive.
Simply not true. If the controller can't address the drive, you're stuffed.
No memory compatibility issues if you do your homework.
Again that's not true. I have had issues despite doing my homework. Some laptops are very finicky about what kind of RAM they use. Not all compatibility charts are accurate.
Spare parts are WAY cheap on ebay. You can fix the broken keyboard or the flakey trackpad for just a couple of dollars.
You can get the parts shipped free and consistently buy them for a couple of dollars? Really?
New batteries are $50 if you look and they work even better than the originals.
Some work better than the originals. Some barely work at all. I've bought camera batteries that were DOA and not worth chasing up for a refund or replacement due to cost.
Full service manuals are available for download from the manufacturers.
You mean: Some service manuals are available from some manufacturers. Be honest.
A couple of tiny screwdrivers and a clean place to work, and that old clunker is better than new.
Ah "Better than new" - yet another exaggeration. I think you'll find few people who'd take your refurb over the original.
A 2002 laptop is made in Taiwan from from better plastic that doesn't stink like the new Chinese laptops.
How about if you buy a new laptop don't buy a new cheap stinker.
I used to laugh at old laptops until I bought one and now I use it every day. The best part is that I don't worry about it getting stolen, I can buy a whole stack of them for what a new one costs....and I can buy a whole stack of family sedans or station wagons for the price of one Rolls Royce. Doesn't mean one family sedan is better than a Rolls.
Sure, you can drop some money on a hard drive and RAM. That is if the notebook will take them. You may well run into memory compatibility problems or a hard drive size limit in the bios. Finding the right kind of RAM and drive may even mean having to spend big depending on where you live.
Much better to spend the money on a new machine. If you have plenty of spare time clean up the old one and use it for a picture frame. It'll be cheaper and likely have more space. Isn't this the accepted non-geek use for an old laptop? If you have LOTS of spare time, consider using it for a geeky project like controlling a robot. Serial ports use to be standard on laptops but now you have to buy USB->serial adapters. So for some things the old laptop is actually better and cheaper to use. You could even consider donating it to your local club. (I almost donated an old laptop to my r/c flying club. With a serial connected hardware module it could be used to monitor for r/c interference. In the end I decided against it because most of the guys at the club would rather have nothing to do with a computer on a Saturday morning).
...then it's up to your boss. If he won't listen and you REALLY don't like it, start looking for another job. However make sure it's important enough to give your job up over. If morals are important to you I think you'll find that no matter what job you do there are going to be aspects of it you aren't comfortable with. At the end of the day you have to be sure you can live with yourself.
The ones you hook up to a few deep cycle batteries or large Lipo packs, plenty of room in a cargo container.
Even better! I need a few cells that will last many months for my remote control aircraft. As things stand at the moment my sealed lead acid batteries that I use for a field kit might last a couple of months without a topup, but the rest of my batteries (NiCd, NiMh) need to be charged the night before if you want reliability.
and they can easily stay in a harbor area of a major city for many months. The only trigger you need is a cell phone
Well it just so happens I'm in the market for a new cell phone this month. Can you tell me which models will last many months on a single charge? That'd be a neat feature to have.
The most I ever spent on speakers was $400 and I considered that a rip off. They were creative 4.1 when the consumer sound cards first went multi-channel back in the 90s.
I have 3 pairs of Logitech X-530s. I paid between AUD68 and 79 for each pair. If I wanted to go nuts I'd splurge on X-540s. I call them the wedding speakers. We used them for the ceremony at our wedding because they are loud and clear. We also used them at a friend's wedding where our gift to them was doing the photography semi-professionally. Can I make them buzz or sound horrible? Yes but they have to be up VERY loud or I have to tweak the bass so that it sounds awful anyway.
Each to their own but I'd rather spend my money on things other than audiovisual crud these days when the "cheap" solution is so good.
No, definitions of planets are important if you're looking for them elsewhere and wish to classify the objects you find orbiting other stars.
The very first line reads "A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun". The Sun. SOL. Our star. Your extra-solar planets aren't planets at all by the agreed upon definition. In fact scientifically the definition is pure garbage.
1) A "dwarf planet" is not a "planet". Calling an entire category by a name so as to misleadingly imply it is a sub-category is confusing and thus very very bad.
2) A planet in an early solar system that hasn't yet cleared all of the rocky material in it's neighbourhood isn't technically a planet yet even if the body itself has formed. What's worse is that the vagueness of the term "neighbourhood" could imply a planet that is near a belt of asteroids isn't a planet either. So is Jupiter a planet then? What about moons? Many large planets have lots of moons that are made of rocky material.
3) The fact that they need to make amendments or additions such as this one is a sure sign that there is something wrong either with the definition itself or the process that is being used to come up with it.
What the definition basically intends to say is a planet is these 8 objects orbiting our own star.
The new definition of "planet" was quite good. Clear, straight to the point, and easy to apply to any object.
Quite good???? It infuriates me that sane rational people keep saying this. It's terrible science. It's inconsistent nonsense. It's a poster child for confusing obfuscated science.
1) A "dwarf planet" is not a "planet". Calling an entire category by a name so as to misleadingly imply it is a sub-category is confusing and thus very very bad.
2) Arbitrary distinction that a planet orbits our own star (the Sun, Sol) means what were referred to as "extra-solar planets" are not actually by the official definition planets at all! What's really bad about this is that there is a lot more older literature that uses terminology which has now been defined to be incorrect.
3) A planet in an early solar system that hasn't yet cleared all of the rocky material in it's neighbourhood isn't technically a planet yet even if the body itself has formed. What's worse is that the vagueness of the term "neighbourhood" could imply a planet that is near a belt of asteroids isn't a planet either. So is Jupiter a planet then? What about moons? Many large planets have lots of moons that are made of rocky material.
4) The fact that they need to make amendments or additions such as this one is a sure sign that there is something wrong either with the definition itself or the process that is being used to come up with it.
What the definition basically intends to say is a planet is these 8 objects orbiting our own star. It's an arbitrary vague piece of garbage.
By they way I couldn't care less if Pluto is a planet or not by the final definition. What I do care about is logical consistent science.
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I wonder how many of these problems are kids whining for attention the way they might whine for ice cream, and how many of these issues are genuine problems. In many cases, if there is a genuine problem, I suspect it'd manifest in other ways if the Internet didn't exist. For those seeking escapism, it might be that the parent goes to the dog track or casino instead of the endless web surfing.
As for kids coming across daddy's little porn stash, I worry for the parents more than the children. If the parent isn't being inappropriate with the child (Yes showing them porn isn't appropriate but I'm talking about interfeering with them) it's the parent that could end up in jail in our paranoid society. The truth is that if kids are to be equipped to deal with the modern world, they should learn about sex early so that they can avoid predators and dangerous misinformation. They just should not engage in sexual activity early. People have become so scared that their children might engage in sex early that they're willing to go to extreme measures and label ordinary parents as sexual predators. Honestly how many slashdotters would have had fathers who had a stash of playboy magazines and who'd secretly sneaked a peak at them when they were young. This is the internet equivalent.
This is not new. It predates The War on [noun/adjective/adverb/other]
End of discussion.
The issue here is not whether they can inspect your documents, but whether they can keep a copy of your electronic files.
I think you misunderstand what "End of discussion." means.
Speaking as someone who works on ancient Greek literature for a living
My hat's off to anyone who can get through Iliad and Odyssey let alone make a living at it. I'm no idiot. English was my easiest subject in school. Shakespeare didn't phase me (though I had a love/hate relationship with some of the drivel he wrote). However when I tried to read the Iliad and Odyssey I just couldn't handle the repetition. It bored me to tears.
you're disregarding your beloved wikipedia
Skepticism is not about replacing one form of blind faith with another. Anyone who claims to be a skeptic but takes Wikipedia at face value is not a skeptic. Idiot perhaps.
I'd rather rely on the best evidence collected, with plenty of references and independent sources to back it up, than on blind faith in anything or anyone.
That's not to knock Wikipedia as an excellent starting point, but I've seen plenty of bias in the articles and if it's important to know the truth I'd always go looking at the cited references AND finding more independantly of Wikipedia.
MS Project paves the way to waterfall projects, mainly because most managers don't understand iterative development.
I'd say the problem is more general: most business people don't understand iterative development. They want hard deadlines and schedules and guarantees, even though software development doesn't really work that way.
Two ways to overcome that.
1) Put each iterative process in as a task on the project plan and make sure you allow for iterations.
2) Put each iteration into the project plan up front.
Use 1 when you want to present the task to those who don't understand iteration. The task becomes a black box. It's harder to track progress on the task, but it allows you to present your plan hopefully without having it shot down.
Use 2 when you're target audience understands the iterative process. Great for tracking.
Project plans are always a work of fiction. However, like a good murder mystery, if you can throw a lot of truth in, they read more plausibly because they're closer to the truth. Also like a good murder mystery, you want to keep the plan interesting and relevant but only include as much detail as you think your audience can digest.
I find the hardest thing is being given the task of preparing the project plan then not being given the authority to have things done in the way you had planned.
...it meant you wrote code, and released it as open source. But maybe that's just me?
This really drives one to another issue. The longevity of the fingerprints will remove their value. All a finger print proves is proximity. As long as a finger print is there, it proves nothing but attendance.
Fingerprints are just a tool.
Traditional fingerprints can be used where time you are trying to determine if someone was there recently. This new technology may be useful in a case where the suspect claims to have no connection with a place or object. They'd need to be used more carefully and their use is limited, but this doesn't take anything away from traditional fingerprinting techniques.
The 70s photo is of of a bright eyed bushy tailed group ready to take on the world.
Are you looking at a different picture? I see a bunch of drug taking, 70s fashion victims that've been up all night coding and plotting to take over the world from their parent's basements.
Third, and most importantly, PEOPLE ARE FREE TO STRUCTURE THEIR EMPLOYMENT AS THEY WISH. Whether a person has the clout to get different terms is a factor of their value. The company doesn't have to hire someone and someone certainly doesn't have to work for a company.
No they're not. People and companies are bound by the law, which still applies. Putting it in caps doesn't make it so. People modding you up for such a stupid statement doesn't make it so. All it takes is proof by counter example and you've got egg on your face. So...
For example, everywhere as far as I know, a company can't offer you a contract that requires you to give them any children you conceive while working for them. Likewise I can't imagine a condition of employment being that you go out and murder your neighbours being legally binding (with perhaps the exception of an extremist military regime that also holds power).
So no, people are not free to act as they wish. That isn't the definition of freedom. Freedom does not mean you're allowed to do whatever you want no matter how it impacts others. You still have to be at least benign to the society in which you live, based on the laws that society has passed. At least that's the theory. I'm guessing you're American? When America's founding fathers fought for freedom they did not fight for lawlessness and hedonistic disregard for their fellow man.
I'd say that:
- Internal 802.11g ($30, goes in mini-PCI slot instead of useless WinModem)
- 160 Gb Drive
- Better than new battery
counts as 'better than new'
I'd say a machine with a few new components, but old video, CPU and motherboard which have been well used and sren't in new condition is not "better than new".
No. If it were intentional it would have been American idiot.
You're telling us that you were the smartest kid in school, but that you weren't smart enough to stop the dumbest kid from kicking your ass on a daily basis.
There are different types of intelligence. Social intelligence is a completely different skill to academic intelligence. In other words being able to stop the dumbest kid in the school from kicking your ass is a different skill to trying to solve a quadratic equation.
Now when v2.0 finishes something early (which she often does), her teacher finds a few pages worth of stuff to do that is similar to what the class is working on in the book and has her do it.
How about finding something completely different for her to learn? Something she wouldn't normally have picked up. Presumably if she's finished that work early and correctly she learns very little doing more of the same. Picking up something completely new on the other hand, and learning to do this on her own without instruction, will be much better for her. She doesn't always have to jump ahead either (although she can if you determine that's good for her). There's plenty that's no longer taught due to the slowed pace that she could be picking up.
This is common, but from a kid's perspective, most would rather be sitting quietly or reading a book than doing more *work* than everyone else has to do.
That's because in a world where you have great scientific theory, music art that would take many lifetimes to study, complex political and geographic systems, a history so rich no one could cover it all, and knowledge in many practical skills, the current education systems world wide have made learning about these things and aquiring skills boring and dull.
What you need to do with this sort of child is get them fired up and passionate about learning something. Then instead of reading a storybook for 20 minutes or "sitting quietly" (ie being parked out of the teacher's way) they could be absorbing more knowledge and perhaps picking up a new skill. The extra work allocated should not be formally assessed and there should be no penalty for not completing it. It should be targetted to the student (and in fact they should have selected it - one of their first tasks should be to find something they wish to learn when they finish tasks early). It should be FUN. Yeah strange concept. Instead of boring a child to tears and dosing the ones that respond badly with Ritalin we should try to make learning a pleasure so they don't stop as soon as they leave school.
Luck? No, when you take a knife out and stick it into someone's back, the only piece of luck involved is the luck that they don't notice and turn around while you're doing it. Then again a good sense of timing and a total lack of moral fibre goes a long way to picking your moment and eliminating the element of luck all together.
If Microsoft was about trying to understand "understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experience and put them together" they'd have tried to bring Gary Kildall on board instead of screwing him out of his OS for minimum price.
Clearly what he just demonstrated is that by business experience he means the ability to lie to your customer and twist the truth to suit your business goals.
No problems with BIOS limitations if you put the /boot partition on the beginning of the big fat drive.
...and I can buy a whole stack of family sedans or station wagons for the price of one Rolls Royce. Doesn't mean one family sedan is better than a Rolls.
Simply not true. If the controller can't address the drive, you're stuffed.
No memory compatibility issues if you do your homework.
Again that's not true. I have had issues despite doing my homework. Some laptops are very finicky about what kind of RAM they use. Not all compatibility charts are accurate.
Spare parts are WAY cheap on ebay. You can fix the broken keyboard or the flakey trackpad for just a couple of dollars.
You can get the parts shipped free and consistently buy them for a couple of dollars? Really?
New batteries are $50 if you look and they work even better than the originals.
Some work better than the originals. Some barely work at all. I've bought camera batteries that were DOA and not worth chasing up for a refund or replacement due to cost.
Full service manuals are available for download from the manufacturers.
You mean: Some service manuals are available from some manufacturers. Be honest.
A couple of tiny screwdrivers and a clean place to work, and that old clunker is better than new.
Ah "Better than new" - yet another exaggeration. I think you'll find few people who'd take your refurb over the original.
A 2002 laptop is made in Taiwan from from better plastic that doesn't stink like the new Chinese laptops.
How about if you buy a new laptop don't buy a new cheap stinker.
I used to laugh at old laptops until I bought one and now I use it every day. The best part is that I don't worry about it getting stolen, I can buy a whole stack of them for what a new one costs.
Sure, you can drop some money on a hard drive and RAM. That is if the notebook will take them. You may well run into memory compatibility problems or a hard drive size limit in the bios. Finding the right kind of RAM and drive may even mean having to spend big depending on where you live.
Much better to spend the money on a new machine. If you have plenty of spare time clean up the old one and use it for a picture frame. It'll be cheaper and likely have more space. Isn't this the accepted non-geek use for an old laptop? If you have LOTS of spare time, consider using it for a geeky project like controlling a robot. Serial ports use to be standard on laptops but now you have to buy USB->serial adapters. So for some things the old laptop is actually better and cheaper to use. You could even consider donating it to your local club. (I almost donated an old laptop to my r/c flying club. With a serial connected hardware module it could be used to monitor for r/c interference. In the end I decided against it because most of the guys at the club would rather have nothing to do with a computer on a Saturday morning).
...then it's up to your boss. If he won't listen and you REALLY don't like it, start looking for another job. However make sure it's important enough to give your job up over. If morals are important to you I think you'll find that no matter what job you do there are going to be aspects of it you aren't comfortable with. At the end of the day you have to be sure you can live with yourself.
The ones you connect to a $20 car battery with a $10 adapter.
Ever gone away on holiday and come home to a flat car battery?
The ones you hook up to a few deep cycle batteries or large Lipo packs, plenty of room in a cargo container.
Even better! I need a few cells that will last many months for my remote control aircraft. As things stand at the moment my sealed lead acid batteries that I use for a field kit might last a couple of months without a topup, but the rest of my batteries (NiCd, NiMh) need to be charged the night before if you want reliability.
Where are my mod points, -1 stupid
Ahhhh the beauty of using AC to abuse someone.
and they can easily stay in a harbor area of a major city for many months. The only trigger you need is a cell phone
Well it just so happens I'm in the market for a new cell phone this month. Can you tell me which models will last many months on a single charge? That'd be a neat feature to have.
Wow! Just wow!
The most I ever spent on speakers was $400 and I considered that a rip off. They were creative 4.1 when the consumer sound cards first went multi-channel back in the 90s.
I have 3 pairs of Logitech X-530s. I paid between AUD68 and 79 for each pair. If I wanted to go nuts I'd splurge on X-540s. I call them the wedding speakers. We used them for the ceremony at our wedding because they are loud and clear. We also used them at a friend's wedding where our gift to them was doing the photography semi-professionally. Can I make them buzz or sound horrible? Yes but they have to be up VERY loud or I have to tweak the bass so that it sounds awful anyway.
Each to their own but I'd rather spend my money on things other than audiovisual crud these days when the "cheap" solution is so good.
No, definitions of planets are important if you're looking for them elsewhere and wish to classify the objects you find orbiting other stars.
The very first line reads "A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun". The Sun. SOL. Our star. Your extra-solar planets aren't planets at all by the agreed upon definition. In fact scientifically the definition is pure garbage.
1) A "dwarf planet" is not a "planet". Calling an entire category by a name so as to misleadingly imply it is a sub-category is confusing and thus very very bad.
2) A planet in an early solar system that hasn't yet cleared all of the rocky material in it's neighbourhood isn't technically a planet yet even if the body itself has formed. What's worse is that the vagueness of the term "neighbourhood" could imply a planet that is near a belt of asteroids isn't a planet either. So is Jupiter a planet then? What about moons? Many large planets have lots of moons that are made of rocky material.
3) The fact that they need to make amendments or additions such as this one is a sure sign that there is something wrong either with the definition itself or the process that is being used to come up with it.
What the definition basically intends to say is a planet is these 8 objects orbiting our own star.
The new definition of "planet" was quite good. Clear, straight to the point, and easy to apply to any object.
Quite good???? It infuriates me that sane rational people keep saying this. It's terrible science. It's inconsistent nonsense. It's a poster child for confusing obfuscated science.
1) A "dwarf planet" is not a "planet". Calling an entire category by a name so as to misleadingly imply it is a sub-category is confusing and thus very very bad.
2) Arbitrary distinction that a planet orbits our own star (the Sun, Sol) means what were referred to as "extra-solar planets" are not actually by the official definition planets at all! What's really bad about this is that there is a lot more older literature that uses terminology which has now been defined to be incorrect.
3) A planet in an early solar system that hasn't yet cleared all of the rocky material in it's neighbourhood isn't technically a planet yet even if the body itself has formed. What's worse is that the vagueness of the term "neighbourhood" could imply a planet that is near a belt of asteroids isn't a planet either. So is Jupiter a planet then? What about moons? Many large planets have lots of moons that are made of rocky material.
4) The fact that they need to make amendments or additions such as this one is a sure sign that there is something wrong either with the definition itself or the process that is being used to come up with it.
What the definition basically intends to say is a planet is these 8 objects orbiting our own star. It's an arbitrary vague piece of garbage.
By they way I couldn't care less if Pluto is a planet or not by the final definition. What I do care about is logical consistent science.
Well, this looks interesting, but isn't it just a multitouch 3D flat panel?
Only if by 3D panel you mean slashvertisement.